Hello all
Yesterday, I downloaded a scratch project source (called "Pirate scene") and spent a lot of time completely changing it and revising it. All the while I kept hitting Ctl-S to save the file. I even showed the changed version to my dad.
Today, when I got on to scratch on my PC and tried to locate my project, I couldn't find it. My dad said that since I kept saving a changed version of a downloaded file, it is
still likely to be in the \documents & settings\<username>\local settings\Temp directory.
We went there and found that I did have the *original* downloaded version of "Pirate scene" there, but not my modified version. The time stamp shows that this was the file
I had downloaded yesterday afternoon (and not the one I kept saving until yesterday evening).
I know it was silly of me to not have saved my modified version in a separate directory. However, since Scratch was saving whenever I said ctl-S, it should have saved the modifications in the same file, right? Both I and my dad are unable to explain what might have happened to the modified filed.
Any help recovering the file (or at least a guess as to what might have happened) would be appreciated.
Thanks
GTHunter
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Did you check the "Projects" directory? I've found that my students often end up saving their files there instead of wherever they think they are saving them.
Personally, I think that the save button and keyboard shortcut should pop up a little dialog box that says *where* the file was saved. (Maybe going away automatically after 20 seconds.)
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Hi Kevin
We did check the Projects directory and it wasn't saved there.. (By the way, one of the modifications I did was to include a background song from Itunes--I wonder if that somehow affected the way the file gets saved).
GTHunter
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I have had the same problem, no only with Scratch but with other applications like Microsoft Word.
I would just use the Windows search to find all the files with the .sb extension on your hard drive and hope that you find it.
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That doesn't sound good. Never thought that was possible. We should backup our projects!
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